From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.7 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS, URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA0A1C5519F for ; Wed, 18 Nov 2020 09:41:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86FF82076C for ; Wed, 18 Nov 2020 09:41:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726775AbgKRJlh (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Nov 2020 04:41:37 -0500 Received: from smtprelay0163.hostedemail.com ([216.40.44.163]:44502 "EHLO smtprelay.hostedemail.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1725790AbgKRJlg (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Nov 2020 04:41:36 -0500 Received: from smtprelay.hostedemail.com (10.5.19.251.rfc1918.com [10.5.19.251]) by smtpgrave04.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADAA418033F5D; Wed, 18 Nov 2020 09:41:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from filter.hostedemail.com (clb03-v110.bra.tucows.net [216.40.38.60]) by smtprelay03.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A220837F24D; Wed, 18 Nov 2020 09:41:34 +0000 (UTC) X-Session-Marker: 6A6F6540706572636865732E636F6D X-HE-Tag: sun17_590424827339 X-Filterd-Recvd-Size: 1850 Received: from XPS-9350.home (unknown [47.151.133.149]) (Authenticated sender: joe@perches.com) by omf09.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA; Wed, 18 Nov 2020 09:41:33 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] pwm: core: Use octal permission From: Joe Perches To: Uwe =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Kleine-K=F6nig?= , Lee Jones Cc: Soham Biswas , thierry.reding@gmail.com, linux-pwm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2020 01:41:31 -0800 In-Reply-To: <20201118093506.srljfosnamxe5wwz@pengutronix.de> References: <20201117175452.26914-1-sohambiswas41@gmail.com> <20201117181214.GK1869941@dell> <20201118085113.GO1869941@dell> <20201118093506.srljfosnamxe5wwz@pengutronix.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" User-Agent: Evolution 3.38.1-1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2020-11-18 at 10:35 +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: > Actually I'd prefer keeping the symbolic name because this is easier to > grep for. So to convince me a better reason than "checkpatch says so" is > needed. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CA+55aFw5v23T-zvDZp-MmD_EYxF8WbafwwB59934FV7g21uMGQ@mail.gmail.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Linus Torvalds Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2016 16:58:29 -0400 The symbolic names are good for the *other* bits (ie sticky bit, and the inode mode _type_ numbers etc), but for the permission bits, the symbolic names are just insane crap. Nobody sane should ever use them. Not in the kernel, not in user space. Linus